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How keep the stench down in the the 1860's front parlor!
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1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 day, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed.
1939 William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast. 1942 The order for 'extermination asocials through labour' is approved by Otto Thierack, Nazi minister of justice. 1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied PoWs and 4,200 Javanese slave labourers. |
1939 British navy captures German U-27.
1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-338. 1990 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification. |
1944 Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrender.
1949 Chinese Communist leaders proclaim People's Republic of China. 1954 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned under Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson. |
September 21,1951 - GANDHI'S SON BOOKED FOR SITTING ON BENCH RESERVED FOR EUROPEANS
Manilal Gandhi, second son of Mohandas Gandhi, is informed by a police sergeant that a summons will be issued against him for sitting on a bench reserved "For Europeans Only" at the main railway station in Durban, South Africa. http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/t...6&q=60&o=f&l=f |
1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich.
1941 General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London. 1941 German air raid on Russian naval base at Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks). 1941 The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. concentration camp. 1942 Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad. 1942 Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany. 1942 The 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb. |
1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton.
1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight chargs of treason in Washington, D.C. 1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launched. |
1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge; English army under King Harold Godwinson defeat invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both killed.
1915 Battle of Loos commenced, lasted until 14th October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own trenches: 59,000 British & 26,000 German casualties. 1939 Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending WW I, as Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra. 1956 First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation from Newfoundland to Oban. 1976 Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik and Adam Clayton respond to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band, which would eventually become U2. |
Least we should forget that one this day a 59 year old pitcher pitched three innings ... becoming the oldest pitcher ever to play a game in the major leagues: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...-three-innings
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A bersyrkyr; A fabulous pitcher and...Achtung Baby?!!!!
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https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...f00c0a889f.jpgForget the two colorful Harolds! : A giant Norse berserker silently surveyed the Saxon army, firmly clutching a massive double-bladed greataxe in his weathered, calloused hands. A lone Viking hero granted permission by his King to die honorably in combat, tasked with defending the Stamford narrow bridge and buying time for his brethren to reorganize."But there was one of the Norwegians who withstood the English folk, so that they could not pass over the bridge, nor complete the victory." https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...chel_Paige.jpgThe immortal Satchel Paige who became a legend in his own lifetime by being known as perhaps the best pitcher in baseball history, by his longevity in the game 1924-1966, and by attracting record crowds wherever he pitched. Satchel's mother, Lula, would even comment on how Satchel would rather "play baseball than eat. It was always baseball, baseball... http://media.u2.com/non_secure/image...htungb/600.jpgAnd of course fabulous public good/activist oriented U2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2 and their seventh album ACHTUNG BABY!:hmmm: :Kaleun_Salute: Track one: Zoo Station https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ilSfOfpzlU All in all: for a Norwegian college grad, baseball (Giants)fanatic & diehard U2 buff, a fabulous Sunday! :yeah: |
1580 Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind.
1938 Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land. 1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton for second time. 1983 Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error. |
1939 Warsaw surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance.
1941 US launches its 1st Liberty ship, freighter SS Patrick Henry. 1942 Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general (Gruppenfuehrer). 1968 France denies UK entry into common market. 1991 US President George H. W. Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert. |
2 B the 'world's policeman', U gotta B-(52) a noted 'pistolero'
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The only active operational model of the B-52 is the B-52H. It is currently stationed at two USAF bases, flown by(only:oops:) three wings:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ommand.svg.png 11th Bomb Squadron (B-52H, Tail Code: LA, Gold Tail Stripe) 20th Bomb Squadron (B-52H, Tail Code: LA, Blue Tail Stripe) 96th Bomb Squadron (B-52H, Tail Code: LA, Red Tail Stripe) 23d Bomb Squadron (B-52H, Tail Code: MT, Red Tail Stripe) 69th Bomb Squadron (B-52H, Tail Code: MT, Yellow Tail Stripe)
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